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Lookup service

Check who holds a given domain name, or which domain names a given organization holds. Look up a domain name or an organization number in the search box. To get…

Statistics

…1999 until today. Three conditions may have impacted the numbers. In February 2001 some big changes were made to the terms and conditions. Each holder could now order more than…

30 years of Norwegian domain names

…from newspapers – on actual paper – or the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. In newsrooms, editors started their day by going through the several metres of telex notices that had come…

Frequently asked questions

…trademark register in one single search. Doing a search here can give you an indication of potential rights. In addition, you can also search the patent register. Some parties may…

Online presence – where and how?

…needs to be conscious of how they build their online identity. The Internet has completely changed society. It is an important source of news, information, and entertainment, and people use…

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Operations and load remain regular

Business as usual is not normally considered to be newsworthy. However, considering the situation in Norway and the rest of the world has dealt with over the last few months,…

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Steady increase of domain names

…the rest of their life. Less visible – just as important To find what we want on the web, we use search engines, click on links or open apps. Thus…

Thinking about starting a business?

…your chest until the domain name is registered. Search the domain name register, the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities and the trademark register in one single search, navnesok.no Table…

How the domain name system works

…known as the DNS, works. For a user, the value of the internet lies in the services that run on the technical infrastructure. The most well known services are web…

Find available domain name

…look-up service navnesok.no. This service lets you search the domain name register, the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities and the trademark register in a single search. Read more about…

Problems with the subscription

search will often point you in the right direction of a solution. More about problems with the subscription Frequently asked questions about transferring domain names Find the organization number the…

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Norid in the final for the CENTR Awards

The service navnesok.no (namesearch), developed by Norid, The Brønnøysund Register Center and The Norwegian Industrial Property Office, is one of three finalists in the category for marketing campaigns in this…

Plans to utilize .bv shelved

News article first published 23 June 2016 Norid has collaborated with Dutch SIDN to utilize the top-level domain .bv on the Dutch market. Norid and SIDN have now agreed to…

Possible use of .bv

News article first published 19 September 2014 Norid is negotiating with the Dutch registry, SIDN, about a collaboration to make the .bv top-level domain available to the Dutch market. We…

Court decisions

This page lists all the Norwegian court cases relating to domain names that we are aware of. A few important judgements have been translated to English, please see the Norwegian…

Domain name policy for .no

…as additional rules for registering the reserved sub-domain www under the geographic names (Appendix B). 4.2 Category domains are used to assemble subscriber groups that have a certain commonality. Additional rules…

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The pandemic is boosting entrepreneurship

…choice for a domain name for their effort is bondedraumen.no (English translation: farmersdream.no). Online store as a supplement to skin care salon The domain name dinegenpleie.no was registered by Christina…

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Norid has taken over the administration of priv.no

Under the current rules, private individuals in Norway can register domain names within the generic domain priv.no. Norid wants to maintain this option and has therefore taken over the management…

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Smooth launch of private domain names

After a successful introduction of priv.no, the Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority drew lots today to decide the order in which multiple applications for the same domain names should be…

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Watch out for domain scammers

…just short of 300 different top level domains today, either of the national kind like .no or .se, or the generic kind like .com or .net. It is up to…

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Big tasks ahead

…the development demands alot of resources from all parts of Norid. Norid’s own technicians do most of the programming. The same technicians are responsible for keeping today‘s system running faultlessly…

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The tug of war over the Internet goes on

…people the opportunity to participate in the information society. Russia first in line Russia delivered their application on their country name in Cyrillic as the very first in the non-Latin…

Events and seminars

…the Internet we know today? We look forward to seeing you at Sommero Hotell 16 November, 10 am – 4 pm. Agenda and registration The seminar is in Norwegian only….

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Domain scammers are at it again

…domain names under several top-level domains in any case, though? Today there are some 1,500 different top-level domains worldwide, either country codes, such as .no or .se, traditional generic top-level…

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Norid transferring to new owner

…and later as a subsidiary. Uninett develops and operates the digital foundation for education and research in Norway, and it was natural that the responsibility for running the registry for…

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Increased security with new registrar agreement

…in June and September. – Today we have fewer registrars than before this shift, but can state that the competition between registrars within different customer segments still works, and that…

Domain registration directory service

…The service does not offer a free text search. Use of the service is subject to certain terms and conditions, and by doing a loop-up, users confirm their acceptance of these…

Domain conflicts in the legal system

…is used in the domain name system; domain names are used to look up IP addresses. The lookup process initiates a search for the IP address, which is used to…

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Domain scammers try again

…name under other top-level domains, e.g.  mycompanyname.co or mycompanyname.shop. They insist that the target company needs these domain names to avoid search engines mismatch and that others take advantage of their brand,…

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Webinar about DNSSEC in the Nordics

…important contribution to more secure communication online. When you look up a domain name, a search for an IP address is initiated in order to contact the server hosting the…